A bunch of different learning styles and personality style resources

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Learning Modalities


VARK Questionnaire
(Note: Standard questionnaire, student and athlete -- all free -- link to student and athlete from top right of the screen of the standard questionnaire)
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire

Visual Auditory Kinaesthetic VAK Questionnaire
A bit longer and not check box but is probably a more reliable test. Worth doing for the adults...
http://teachertools.londongt.org/?page=VAK

How Your Child Is Smart by Dawna Markova
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Other types of styles that can be helpful with team building


Myer's Briggs (Personality styles)


Great descriptions
http://personalitypage.com/

Free quiz
http://kisa.ca/personality/index.php

And, for those interested, a study done on the grades achieved in different types of engineering classes by students at NCSU -- of course, if an "F" is the new "A", this is less relevant...
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/longmbti.pdf

Right brained/left brained


Karen Davis (Charlotte) has a great list of resources for right brained learners:
http://www.squidoo.com/Right_Brained_Learner
Go down halfway and watch the "Animal School" video if you haven't seen it before.

And last, a current business book on the future of right brained thinkers (Linda thinks this is unlikely, being a left-brained learner herself...)
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink